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ArticlePediatric pulmonology2025

Premature Infants Show Consistently Good Lung Compliance During Conventional Mechanical Ventilation.

Annalena Reiss, Wanda Lauth, Martin Wald

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3 authors.

Annalena ReissDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
Wanda LauthTeam Biostatistics and Big Medical Data, IDA Lab Salzburg, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
Martin WaldDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6558-1032

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionMany extremely small preterm infants need to be intubated and mechanically ventilated during their intensive care stay. Animal studies indicate that lung compliance can deteriorate rapidly under conventional ventilation. This study investigated whether this presumed deterioration in compliance actually occurs in extremely small preterm infants.

methodsData from 56 conventionally ventilated preterm infants born from 2016 to 2022 at 25.22 weeks' gestation (±1.47) and 678.71 g (±138.14) birth weight were retrospectively analysed. This study investigated how dynamic compliance changed over the course of ventilation.

resultsThe infants were conventionally ventilated from 7.25 days of life (±5.59) for 2.68 days (±2.35). Compliance at the beginning was 0.37 mL/cmH

conclusionDuring conventional ventilation in premature infants after administration of surfactant and with basically recruited lungs, no deterioration in compliance was observed either in the short or long term. The PEEP of almost 7.5 cmH

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Infant, Extremely PrematureRespiration, ArtificialFemaleGestational AgeHumansInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureLungLung ComplianceMaleRetrospective Studiescomplianceconventional ventilationoutcomepreterm infant

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PMID39620379
PMCPMC11748114

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